The Avon Tyres British GT Championship season bursts back into action this weekend with a pair of hour long races at Snetterton, and following the summer break there is much change in the paddock.

The Avon Tyres British GT Championship season bursts back into action this weekend with a pair of hour long races at Snetterton, and following the summer break there is much change in the paddock.

Following a destructive accident at Brands Hatch at the previous round the JMH Nissan GT-R is absent from the entry list BenjiHetherington moving to MotorbasePerformance's Porsche squad to join SteveParish, Hetherington returning to the driving seat of a Porsche after having competed in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB last season after receiving the Porsche Scholarship award.

Continuing the cycle of musical chairs in the paddock PhilBurton's PredatorCCTV Ferrari 430 Scuderia will be run by the JMH squad, Burton and co-driver AdamWilcox hoping to break a run of problematic races in the black #12 car.

Making a return to the championship, MarcoAttard shares the Rhino’sLeipertMotorsport Lamborghini with HariProzcyk. Attard shared the car with team principal Marcel Leipert at the Nurburgring rounds in May, finishing an impressive seventh in the first race at the German track.

Alongside the Lamborghini the debut of three more cars adds further depth to the British GT field. Almost undoubtedly the most eye-catching of the new additions is UnitedAutosports' McLaren MP4-12C. The Anglo-American team announced their switch in focus to the British championship from the Blancpain Endurance Series before last weekend's Spa 24 Hours, and MattBell and CharlesBateman will swap their Audi R8 LMS ultra for McLaren machinery for the first time this weekend ahead of the team making a full assault on the British GT crown in 2013.

In the GTC class – as well as the return of the Chevron GR8 after missing the Brands round – FF Corse field GaryEastwood and RyanHooker in a Ferrari 458 Challenge, while the GT4 field is bolstered by the arrival of CompleteRacing's Aston Martin, former VW Racing Cup man SteveChaplin joined by PhilKeen in surely a threat to the established GT4 runners which all return, save for the Lotus SportUK Evoras, the team sadly missing their home round.

The Evoras will not be the only absentees this weekend. Both Team WFR and OptimumMotorsport's Ginetta G55s will both be missing, the former a victim of delays in supply from Ginetta's Yorkshire factory.

Furthermore, following a crash while instructing at Spa-Francorchamps, OliverBryant will sit out the weekend for EcurieEcosse. Instead OliverMillroy, who drives for the Barwell Motorsport run squad in the Blancpain Endurance Series, stepping in to drive the car with Alasdair McCaig.

Changes A Plenty As British GT Field Reconvenes was last modified: September 8th, 2012